8/20/2022 – Eduardo Iturrizaga and Marta García won the 2022 Spanish Championships. The event was a 9-round Swiss open played on August 11-19 at the RL Aníbal Hotel in Linares, Andalusia. Iturrizaga, who transferred to Spain only last year, won his second consecutive title, while Garcia, 22, achieved her first triumph in the women’s championship. | Photos: Spanish Chess Federation Facebook page

8/20/2022 – In this King's Indian position, it's Black to move - and he can quickly take the full point if White isn't careful. You have been warned!

8/20/2022 – With two rounds to go, Magnus Carlsen is in the sole lead at the FTX Crypto Cup in Miami. Carlsen lost his match against Jan-Krzysztof Duda in blitz tiebreaks —gaining 1 point in the standings— while former co-leader Praggnanandhaa was defeated by Le Quang Liem in the rapid section of their match. What had become a two-horse race for first place has now three players fighting for tournament victory, as Alireza Firouzja won a fourth match in a row and now stands two points behind the leader. | Pictured: Jan-Krzysztof Duda at the opening ceremony

8/20/2022 – A field with well-established GMs and young stars is fighting it off in Miami at the FTX Crypto Cup. Our in-house expert Karsten Müller is following the games looking to find the most intriguing and instructive ending positions. Do not miss his on-point analyses! | Pictured: Praggnanandhaa in 2018 | Photo: Amruta Mokal

8/19/2022 – In his Power Play Show, Daniel King finds inspiration in a game from the Women’s Olympiad. Tournament sensation Oliwia Kiolbasa defeated Indian rising star Vaishali after converting her advantage in a fascinating rook endgame. This is the starting point for a discussion with related games. | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

8/19/2022 – Sipke Ernst has made a successful Fritzrainer last year, tackling the "flexible Open Spanish". The Dutch Grandmaster is back again, with "3.h4 against the King's Indian and Grünfeld". Time to ask him about when he started to play chess, his feeling when reaching the Grandmaster title, a rating of over 2600, and one of his most passionate hobbies - Arm wrestling! We also analyse one of his favourite games he ever played. Luke Mcshane was the opponent, made a beautiful sacrifice, which Sipke countered wonderfully. | Photo: Sipke Ernst FB

8/16/2022 – Ding Liren had a very tough start at the 2022 Candidates Tournament. He lost his first game, and a series of seven draws ensued. At that point, the world number two began to score one win after another, ending with a very impressive 8/14 in second place. We conducted an interview with him, discussing his performance at this elite event, going through the critical positions in each one of his games. | Photo: FIDE / Stev Bonhage

8/16/2022 – In the diagrammed position White is a pawn up and has two powerful passed pawns that are supported by his king. However, White still needs to be precise to win the game. How should he proceed?

8/16/2022 – The FTX Crypto Cup, the second Major of this year’s Meltwater Champions Tour, kicked off at the Eden Roc Miami Beach Hotel in Florida. Magnus Carlsen, Praggnanandhaa, Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Levon Aronian all started strong, beating their respective opponents ‘in regulation’ — i.e. within the first four rapid games of each match. Notably, Pragg defeated Alireza Firouzja in the duel between rising stars.

8/15/2022 – In the Endgame Magic Show #207 Karsten Müller has a guest: Lara Schulze, one of Germany's most promising female talents, who in 2021 won the European Women's Championship U20 and the German Women's Rapid Championship. In this episode of the Endgame Magic Show Lara and Karsten look at endgame highlights from the Chess Olympiad in Chennai. | Photo: Oliver Koeller | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

8/15/2022 – How fast and how reliably can strong chess players recognize chess positions? How good are world-class grandmasters at identifying games? And how do they compare with amateurs in this respect. The very successful science and engineering channel Veritasium has picked up this subject and made a very interesting video on it. To which we add our own research, conducted almost forty years ago.

8/14/2022 – An experienced trainer, Ivan Sokolov just helped Uzbekistan to win the Chess Olympiad in Chennai. In his FritzTrainer series for ChessBase, he showcases a pragmatic style, focusing on general ideas rather than on specific lines. In a section focused on positions where Black has not castled but placed his king on f8, Sokolov analyses a game between Fabiano Caruana and Daniel Naroditsky. Out of a French Defence, Caruana never lets go of the initiative, and achieves a remarkable victory. | Photo: Austin Fuller / Saint Louis Chess Club